This is a platform for our affinity group, our squat Positivenest, our projects like Program Awakening, and the videos and posters manufactured by Spirit of Squatters Collective and a few others. Our idea is to bring a lot of positive messages and constructive solutions to the alternative movement. We try to avoid pessimistic news, except when we are fighting for freedom of speech. Real life starts when we turn off our computer, our tv, etc. If you want to contact us, email mgriks@gmail.com

Thursday, June 28, 2012

South African lions are being slaughtered for their bones, just to make bogus sex potions for men. But if we show President Zuma that this hurts South Africa's image as a tourist destination, he could stop this cruelty by banning the trade in lion bones and organs. Sign the petition below -- we'll take out ads in major tourism magazines and websites:

Hundreds of South African lions are being slaughtered to make bogus sex potions for men. But we can stop this cruel trade by hitting the government where it hurts -- the tourism industry.

A global ban on tiger bone sales has traders hunting a new prize -- the majestic lions. Lions are farmed under appalling conditions in South Africa for "canned hunting", where rich tourists pay thousands to shoot them through fences. Now experts say lion bones from these killing farms are being exported to phony 'medicine' makers in Asia for record profits. Trade is exploding and experts fear that as prices rise, even wild lions -- with only 20,000 left in Africa -- will come under poaching attack.

If we can show President Zuma that this brutal trade is hurting South Africa's image as a tourist destination, he could ban and punish the trade in lion bones. Avaaz is taking out strong ads in airports, tourism websites and magazines, but we urgently need 1 million petition signers to give the ads their force. Sign below and forward this email to build our numbers fast:

'Tiger bone wine' and other tiger-part medicines were banned after massive international outrage -- now traders have shifted their attention to lions' bones to make all kinds of bogus remedies. Experts say unless governments act now, lions could be the next in line -- after tigers and rhinos -- to face extinction.

There is a solution: banning and punishing the trade of lion bones and organs. South Africa is currently the largest exporter of lion trophies, bones and organs -- it is also the only African country actively breeding lions in large numbers to supply trophy hunting. But if we can show that allowing this senseless trade can hurt South Africa's booming tourism industry and make visitors flee, president Zuma could be forced to act.

Let's build a thunderous global roar for the lions. Avaaz will show the cruelty of the lion bone trade with stinging ads -- sign now and tell everyone about it:

Avaaz members across the world have come together to demand strong protection for rhinos, save the world's bees from poisonous pesticides and achieve huge marine reserves in Chagos and Australia to safeguard vulnerable marine species. Lets come together once again and stand up for Africa's lions.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

On video's You could see extended version but full information with exercises You could get only on the workshops 1.What is tantra ?

Tantra have so many definitions probably as many people are connected to it. There are few things what is difficult to explain and You have to experience them. For me tantra is connecting our sexuality with our spirituality and balancing our female and male energy. It is using secret act of making love not only for our pleasure but also for getting us higher, more conscious, more aware and even more unlighted. It's strengthening everything what we do in our life. By bringing our conscious to higher levels is making us more aware and active with the things what are important to humanity or to save the planet etc. It's making our love more sacred, more pleasurable and more fulfilling. Tantric love is transforming sexual act from short one ended with quick ejaculation, dissatisfaction and loose of energy in to long one like waves of ecstasy ended up when we like it to happen and what is giving us energy. Tantra is expanding intimacy from bad to our daily life, and love from ourselves, to our partner,then family … and to whole universe. Tantra is everything and much more what I would teach You today.

2. Love is the biggest power

Love is the biggest power. There are so many crisis's and problems nowadays than never before. That's why is important to learn love in every waypossible .Not without reasons available over centuriesonly for the elites secrets now are relieved to everyone. Don't miss this chance. Even love is most important in life of most of us there are not so many real knowledge about it. The painful paradox is that doesn't have place in school education. We can talk about big luck when we learn at least some love from our parents. To fill up this gap we wrote these words, we read them, and we giving this workshop.

3. Loss of semen means loosing energy

To start one of the basic things that we have to learn is to avoid ejaculation. During ejaculation, man loses so much energy that after he is usually only able to turn his back and sink into a deep sleep. Loosing so much creative energy if it happen more often than ones a two weeks lead to many health problems, quickfrustration, quick temper lack of energy just no name the few.

Average less than 10 minutes foreplayand less than 7-minute interaction leaves woman disappointed - She needs a lot more time to be excited, and even more to achieve orgasm. This situation discourages woman from making love, makes her feel used and is leading to frustration in the relationship and in our lives.

4. Fore playTherefore, before we learn to slow down or even stop the ejaculation, you should realise how important is foreplay. It's making possible to increase time of making love what give for women more satisfaction what is very important. So let Your woman decide when interaction should start. Man ( but woman either ) could find out in that way thats whole body, thankful of exchange of energy is able to ecstasy and for example tong could receive and give so much pleasure to the licking and licked person what You would never expect. For play its also a great time to get to know our erogenous maps. Mouth, breast, genitals, anus that's commonly known areas of sexual pleasure, but everyone is different and i each of us are hidden great mysteries what we will have to explore.

5 Intimacy not just in bad

Intimacy and love should not be confined just to our bedroom. Making love is not only penetration but also kind words, hugging, nice looks what we should give to our partners in all possible moments. Very nice habit is to cuttle each other every time when we see each other. Another one is nice to before we falling to sleep its nice to cuttle each other in the spoon position (on the side one behind another) and by sharing breathing synchronise our energies. Giving love could be also very nice by doing things together like dancing, partner yoga, romantic dinner, taking some course, reading to each other, doing actions etc. Especially yoga, Tao chia and Qi gong are very handy to complete tantric practise because they're dealing with energy what is very important. Ecstasy shouldn't be excluded to stay between the bedrooms walls but should spread in all areas of our lives. Especially mans have habit to be nice mainly only when they like to make love but this is very annoying and disappointing to women. They very often feel used and see partners love as only way to get something...

6.Male and female energy

Very often our sexual life could improve when we just will give up leading role to the woman's. They are able lead making love much better to make her more content. Which man would not like to satisfy his beloved ? Unfortunately not everyone is able to let themselves to switch the roles. From centuries female sex is suppressed by male sex. Because man's are ruling the world we have so much wars, climate change, hunger and other problems on the world. In the societies and tribes where woman's are leading wars are not happening so often because what mother would send their sons to die for homeland. Care its a woman value so its obvious that in the matriarchal societies people are before profits. Relationship would be much more happy if we would more let women to decide. Of course i'm generalising here because sometimes may happens women's with male character and as well man's who prefer spend time in the kitchen or with children. This is because we all have in ourselves feminine and masculine energies, Yin and Yang, moon end son etc.

From the balance of those two polarities depends our happiness. Unfortunately, imposed on us in childhood educational standards making a men are too masculine, and women too feminine. To balance this we should more often let the man be a woman and vice versa - the woman be a man.

Through the care of children mancan develop his suppressed emotionality.

By letting woman to be on the top during making love ( what through centuries was prohibited ) a woman can regain her leading values.

This tantric change is a good step in the struggle for rights and women's liberation.

From changing ourselves we begin steps towards a better society. Therefore, we must destroy these stereotypes imposed in to us. We should let the man be emotional and sensitive. Through constant suppression of his tears he can breed a terrible disease.

The same may happen to woman if they're never able to relieve her anger, etc. Let's not suppressour feelings. Let us be ourselves. Let's do it for ourselves.

Second part ( following points ) would be presented in wednesday Valreep workshop (27.6.12)

Twenty-first century. Time of great change but also the risks and concerns. Can we survive? Would humanity will cope with the mess that has created mainly during the last century? How far, how long, what disasters we have to experience that people would make the breakthrough of their mentality? There is still hope that if we act united in all possible ways, we can avoid destruction of our planet, extermination of generations to come, global warming, water contamination, deforestation or other consequences of our "civilized" life. There is a power that gives the strength to the hope, gives faith that everything will be fine. This power that's love, what especially now we have to distribute in any possible way and as much as we can. Of course, we should start with ourselves, our beloved, then our children, first close and then further family, then all human beings, animals, plants and entire planet. If we start to love properly, it will not be limited just to ourselves, or eventually only to our family. Developed love does not stop just at feelings for our partners, but on understanding that if we would like to be happy we have to live altruistically. So do good to other people, animals, plants and entire planet.Everything in the universe is interconnected. Our health is increasingly dependent on the health of our planet. We can imagine that we letting in negative energy in to our body by eating every piece of meat, what had to be paid not only by animal suffering but also by the world hunger, climate change, deforestation, poisoning soil,water etc. We wouldn't buy for a child happiness by purchasing cheap Chinese toys, produced by other children from who's childhood was taken away. Giving for beloved heart-shaped chocolates will not pass energy of love if You was aware that to produce it, children were abused at the cocoa plantation. If we understand good in almost all religions and all philosophical systems they're teaching us love. Why, nevertheless, it is still too little of that feeling to save the planet? Why so often still it is just selfish feeling limited only to ourselves ? Why religions that suppose to spread love to often causes bloody wars? We could probably write a book about it but here is not time and place for that. I would go straight to the heart of the problem and the solution. To make our love mature and altruistic I'm encouraging you to familiarize yourself with positive tantra, sexual tao, tantric love which by the fact that would ascend us to higher levels of consciousness will give us healthy, happy life for ourselves and our loved ones, and eventually will open our hearts and eyes to the needs of our times. Regardless of religion, philosophical system,will bring a feeling and power of love in everything what we do.So why wait ? Start today. Save yourself and the rest. Give happiness to yourself and others ! Happy life You get by doing good !

Monday, June 25, 2012

Yesterday, 25-06-2012, an apartment has been squatted by a group of 20 people. According to own research, the place was empty for quite a while. there were no clear signs that it would have been rented any time soon. Mould was to be found till one meter up high on the walls. All water and heating possibilities have been removed, and also electricity was shut down. In 2009, the original renters in the quarter were asked to leave because the buildings would be demolished. Now, 3 years later, students live there with temporary contracts ("plankwoningen"), and demolition has been delayed for an uncertain time. A group op inhabitants of the area reacted positively, also because they didnt want empty & abandoned apartments in their neighbourhood.

The making of this video, like most of our videos, is our way of showing solidarity. And since solidarity is stronger when it is seen by as many people as possible, please spread this video! Pass it on to anybody who could be interested! Feel free to embed, link, send and screen it etc. Use it, don't loose it! Reclaim the media with us!

The Spirit of Squatters Collective is always trying to support and report on good things that are happening around us. We try to being you some news every day, but because of time constraint and lack of (wo)manpower this is not always possible. Our biggest problem is that we don't have enough time to edit or film the videos. That is why we need YOU to help us! You can email us at mgriks@gmail.com

Real life begins when you turn off the tv, when you turn off your computer!See you in the streets, see you at the actions!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

The developments in Greece concern all of us. The long-lasting implementation of harsh austerity measures has led the country into a deep social crisis. The EU and the IMF demand the continuation of these disastrous policies in Greece and in other EU-member states. It is time to turn the tide: People before profit and citizens before banks! Join the solidarity rally on Saturday June 16th, the day before the Greek elections, at the Beursplein in Amsterdam to convey the message to the Greek people: your struggle is our struggle – vote against austerity!

The Troika – the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the IMF – demand from the new Greek government to impose even harder austerity measures. According to internal reports, these measures include the firing of 150.000 civil servants, the reduction of mean salaries and pensions to €600 and €400 per month, respectively and the complete abolition of employment protection and the welfare state. These measures will be applied on top of the already-imposed 25% income reduction, the 100.000 bankrupt companies and the 21% unemployment.

In a meantime the situation in Greece has become critical. Hospitals lack medical supplies, half of the young people are unemployment, in many companies the workers have not been paid for months, homelessness and suicides are rapidly increasing. No wonder the Greek people are fighting back in massive waves of resistance against these inhuman policies.

Why does all this concern us? The Greeks are in the front line of the European politics of the crisis. They are the guinea pig for a policy that is on the agenda of the entire continent. The Kunduz-agreement follows the same line as the first austerity policies that were applied in Greece. And in the same way that Greek people were deprived of their democracy with the European mandates, we risk being deprived of ours as well. Moreover, across Europe the extreme-right is trying to profit by blaming Muslims and migrants for the crisis. That is why these elections are not only about the future of Greece, but about our future as well.

If the Troika manages to achieve their aim, then other countries will soon follow the path of Greece. First Spain, Portugal and Ireland, and then the so-called 'core-countries'. But if the Greeks manage to stop these disastrous policies, this will become an example for all Europeans and show that an alternative is possible. One which taxes the rich instead of the poor, where people have control over the economy and where hope prevails over hatred.On Saturday the 16th of June, we call everybody to come to the Beursplein and declare to the Greeks: YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

The workers, the pensioners, the students and the unemployed of Europe share the same interests:

The making of this videos, like most of our videos, is our way of showing solidarity. And since solidarity is stronger when it is seen by as many people as possible, please spread this videos! Pass it on to anybody who could be interested! Feel free to embed, link, send and screen it etc. Use it, don't loose it! Reclaim the media with us!

The Spirit of Squatters Collective is always trying to support and report on good things that are happening around us. We try to being you some news every day, but because of time constraint and lack of (wo)manpower this is not always possible. Our biggest problem is that we don't have enough time to edit or film the videos. That is why we need YOU to help us! You can email us at mgriks@gmail.com

Real life begins when you turn off the tv, when you turn off your computer!See you in the streets, see you at the actions!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Shell's Let's Go! Arctic campaign comes after exhaustive market research, in which we found out that people like straight talk about oil, and that what they prize most is honesty and enthusiasm about the challenges in obtaining it, with sensitivity to environmental and cultural ramifications riding a distant second.

With the Let's Go! Arctic campaign, therefore, we have stressed the excitement of working in distant frontiers, in some of the most dangerous conditions known or unknown to Man, and depending for survival not so much on the cutting-edge quality of our equipment, as on the sharpness of our wits. We have also insisted on communicating some of the ways we can minimize risks to environment and culture, without ever compromising our safety.

Another thing our research has found is that people prefer certainty to mere possibility; a bird in the hand, after all, is worth two in the bush (or the snow, as the case may be). So while climate change is a serious thing, and its effects, as scientists say, could wipe out a large chunk of humanity, such outcomes are a mere possibility—whereas the benefits from oil extraction are a certainty. Not only does oil certainly permit our civilization to continue, it is also certain that it could be used to help us transition to clean fuels, not to mention rebuild our infrastructure should climate disaster strike.

Everyone can appreciate how oil—the dinosaurs' parting gift to Man—can be used to help build a better future for everyone. Let's Go!

18 million people are desperate for food in Africa's drought-struck Sahel, but urgent appeals for help are being met with deafening silence by governments worldwide. Senegalese musician Baaba Maal has started a petition to get the US, Japan, France and Germany to pledge their fair share of aid. Let's join him -- sign the urgent petition below and sound the massive alarm needed to shake these leaders into action:

My name is Baaba Maal, and I'm a Senegalese musician writing with a personal plea for help. I live in Africa's drought-struck Sahel region where 18 million people are on the brink of disaster, including 1 million children at risk of starvation. But our urgent appeals for help are being met with deafening silence. Only a targeted and overwhelming demand for action can stop this catastrophe from turning deadly.

The UN says millions of lives could be destroyed unless $1.5 billion in aid is channeled in immediately, but governments have pledged less than half the required sum. The countries who can make all the difference are the US, Japan, France and Germany, but they're stalling -- that's why I started a petition on Avaaz's Community Petitions website to appeal to the world for help.

In days, world leaders will gather in Brussels to discuss the Sahel -- if they decide right there and then to pledge their fair share, we can avert disaster. Sign this urgent petition now -- Avaaz, Africans Act 4 Africa, and Oxfam will deliver it in a coordinated stunt when we reach 1 million signatures:

Terrible drought, political unrest, and sky high food prices have wreaked havoc on an area the size of the US, stretching from Senegal in the west all the way to Sudan in the east. People here are doing everything they can to survive, but the crisis has hit so hard that it's difficult to stay hopeful. I've seen women and children trying to grow food in patches of land that are bone dry. They know that people are talking about what is happening in the Sahel, but they don't know if aid will ever arrive.

The UN has only received 43 percent of the $1.5 billion needed -- it's a shortfall of gargantuan proportions. But this gap must be filled, and can be filled by the world's richest countries, if there's political will. We don't have much time to avert mass suffering, and I'm determined to speak on behalf of the people here until they get the help they need.

The world has turned a blind eye to crises like this before, but this time we can make the difference between life and death by forcing our governments to respond. Sign this urgent petition now:

Avaaz members have come together time and time again to respond to natural disasters, saving thousands of lives by ensuring that crucial aid was delivered to Burma, Haiti, Somalia and Pakistan. We have the power to force our leaders to stop idling away in the face of a crisis we can prevent. Let's stand together now to demand that the world respond to the pleas of the millions living in the vast Sahel region.

We're entirely funded by donations and receive no money from governments or corporations. Our dedicated team ensures even the smallest contributions go a long way.

Avaaz.org is a 14-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 19 countries on 6 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

From Athens to Amsterdam: NO to the cutbacks! Solidarity with the Greek resistance against European austerity

The developments in Greece concern all of us. The long-lasting implementation of harsh austerity measures has led the country into a deep social crisis. The EU and the IMF demand the continuation of these disastrous policies in Greece and in other EU-member states. It is time to turn the tide: People before profit and citizens before banks! Join the solidarity rally on Saturday June 16th, the day before the Greek elections, at the Beursplein in Amsterdam to convey the message to the Greek people: your struggle is our struggle – vote against austerity!

The Troika – the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the IMF – demand from the new Greek government to impose even harder austerity measures. According to internal reports, these measures include the firing of 150.000 civil servants, the reduction of mean salaries and pensions to €600 and €400 per month, respectively and the complete abolition of employment protection and the welfare state. These measures will be applied on top of the already-imposed 25% income reduction, the 100.000 bankrupt companies and the 21% unemployment.

In a meantime the situation in Greece has become critical. Hospitals lack medical supplies, half of the young people are unemployment, in many companies the workers have not been paid for months, homelessness and suicides are rapidly increasing. No wonder the Greek people are fighting back in massive waves of resistance against these inhuman policies.

Why does all this concern us? The Greeks are in the front line of the European politics of the crisis. They are the guinea pig for a policy that is on the agenda of the entire continent. The Kunduz-agreement follows the same line as the first austerity policies that were applied in Greece. And in the same way that Greek people were deprived of their democracy with the European mandates, we risk being deprived of ours as well. Moreover, across Europe the extreme-right is trying to profit by blaming Muslims and migrants for the crisis. That is why these elections are not only about the future of Greece, but about our future as well.

If the Troika manages to achieve their aim, then other countries will soon follow the path of Greece. First Spain, Portugal and Ireland, and then the so-called 'core-countries'. But if the Greeks manage to stop these disastrous policies, this will become an example for all Europeans and show that an alternative is possible. One which taxes the rich instead of the poor, where people have control over the economy and where hope prevails over hatred.

On Saturday the 16th of June, we call everybody to come to the Beursplein and declare to the Greeks: you are not alone! The workers, the pensioners, the students and the unemployed of Europe share the same interests: stop austerity and return the bill. Your struggle is our struggle – International solidarity!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Global Flashmob Meditation. MedMob is a global community coming together in meditation, open to people from all walks of life, with the intention of exposing the world to meditation and reaping the benefits of looking within.

Description

Med (Meditation) Mob has been created to fill a meditation void in the community. The Meditation Flashmobs we organize promote positive change in the world through silent meditation and sound bathing. MedMob will meet in silent meditation at various places throughout the city to promote meditation as a means to self discovery.

Our intention: To create an environment for people from all walks of life to come together in meditation. To expose the world to meditation and its benefits. To send positive intentions out into the world. To show that leading by example is the best way to lead. Simple acts can stimulate major paradigm shifts in thinking.

We are so confident that meditation will improve the world that we have created One Giant World Wide Meditation Community so that all can experience the joy of self discovery. Our social environment is changing and now is our opportunity to create a world that we can be proud of. "Give meditation a try, it's not what you think."

"This experience shows that a few energized people can compete with the billions that Shell spends on advertising and lobbying," said James Turner from Greenpeace, who posed as an advertising executive at the event. "As people find out how this oil company is exploiting global warming to cause yet more global warming, thus endangering everyone, they won't allow it, no matter how many billions Shell has in its war chest."

The centerpiece of the action was a lavish party in the Space Needle, in which a model of an Arctic-bound oil rig "accidentally" spewed liquid in the face of the rig designer's "widow"—actually 84-year-old Occupy activist Dorli Rainey, well-known for having been brutally pepper-sprayed in the face by Seattle Police during Occupy protests last fall.

A one-minute video of that "malfunction," shot by Occupy "infiltrator" Logan Price, quickly reached the top spot on Reddit and the #2 spot on Youtube, with a half-million views in less than 24 hours.

"We know that climate change is putting the entire planet at risk," said Rainey. "It's our duty to stop companies like Shell from using fossil fuels as a lethal weapon—even if it means being sprayed again and again in the face."

As Shell denied, with disappointing blandness, having had anything to do with the party or the "malfunction," the Yes Lab sent out a press release on Shell's behalf, threatening anyone who reposted the video and attacking also the activists' brand-new ArcticReady.com website, which includes a social media ad generator and a dangerously addictive children's video game called Angry Bergs. The fake Shell release generated additional media coverage.

Earlier this year, Shell obtained a legal injunction stopping any Greenpeace activist from coming within 1km of any Shell vessel. To thank the company, Greenpeace teamed up with the Yes Lab to plan a promotional advertising campaign for Shell's Arctic drilling efforts, which Shell prefers to keep quiet. Besides the ill-fated ceremony and the website, the campaign includes a number of other elements that will shadow Shell's summer Arctic destruction campaign.

The device which sprayed Rainey's face was a model of Shell's drill rig, the Kulluk, which is set to soon depart Seattle for the Arctic. The Kulluk was built-in 1983 by Mitsui, the same company that, two decades later, built the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon. Earlier this year, Mitsui paid out $90 million to the U.S. for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

"What Shell is preparing to do in the Arctic is the height of obscenity," said Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Lab. "We've got to do everything we possibly can to draw attention to this unfolding disaster, and more importantly we've got to stop it."

"The melting Arctic is becoming a defining environmental issue of our era, and this campaign is just a taste of what's to come," said Turner.